peacay’s blog Vox 2007-10-19T05:20:53Z peacay http://peacay.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c225287c518e1d/ Life never gets out of beta The BibliOdyssey Book is launched tag:vox.com,2007-10-18:asset-6a00c225287c518e1d00e398b417b40005 2007-10-18T06:26:24Z 2007-10-19T05:20:53Z peacay http://peacay.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

BibliOdyssey book Cover

Well, it's taken a year of arguing, praying, begging, persuading, shouting, hundreds of emails and a ton of research, but the BibliOdyssey book is finally in release! Yay. It's in bookshops in UK/USA in early/mid-November and elsewhere a bit ...

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Stckchrt6

The venerable JM is back on board at the nonist after a digital sabbatical and recharge, and delivers a great post about ocean mapping in Polynesia in days gone by - using bamboo.

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Pocs Pocs 1 Pocs 2

150 surreal, odd and/or generally disturbed Hungarian posters from Pocs-posters.hu. Click on Plakaton.

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]]> Extinct Excursion tag:vox.com,2007-08-14:asset-6a00c225287c518e1d00e3989d98440004 2007-08-14T05:10:14Z 2007-08-14T05:53:29Z peacay http://peacay.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Riding Dodo

'Riding Dodo' by Kevin Titzer - driftwood,metal from candy tins, paint. [via Goddelijke Gladiolen].

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]]> Chironomia tag:vox.com,2007-07-13:asset-6a00c225287c518e1d00d4144dc1423c7f 2007-07-13T01:32:26Z 2007-07-20T16:27:48Z peacay http://peacay.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Elocutor

This Elocution Guy gif image is made from illustrations in the 1803 book - Chironomia - by Gilbert Austin on rhetorical instruction [source] Kind of via Cabinet Magazine's great article on elocution/gesticulation

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]]> Judith Schaechter Stained Glass tag:vox.com,2007-07-05:asset-6a00c225287c518e1d00d41448952d6a47 2007-07-05T05:54:31Z 2008-08-05T14:21:11Z peacay http://peacay.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Judith Schaechter - Specimens Judith Schaechter - Hyena Snake Comet

Wonderful twisted and unique stained glass designs at Judith Schaecther's new site.

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]]> Got Wood...or not? tag:vox.com,2007-06-10:asset-6a00c225287c518e1d00d09e763658be2b 2007-06-10T16:28:54Z 2007-06-10T16:28:54Z peacay http://peacay.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Take-g toys a Take-g toys

Man, if these things really are handcrafted multiple-wood toys with inlay and interlocking hinge joints, there is no way on earth I would let a child near them. I, on the other hand, would love to play with them. Unless they're plastic?? Nothing...

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Jean Gourmont arabesque

Another fine Giornale Nuovo post: Tales of the Arabesque. {I mean, they're all fine. But somes is finerer than otherers.}

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Cannibal Kids

Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday on Kids books. Is nothing sacred? No.

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Horse Sculpture a Horse Sculpture

I really couldn't figure out from the bodgy online translations what this is about - I think it's memorializing some military event - save that it's a new (not quite finished) public sculpture in (I think) Moscow. These are meant to be swimming ...

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